ZenBook Pro Duo UX581GV

Take your creativity and productivity to the next level with the groundbreaking ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo! Designed to give you the ultimate edge in workflow efficiency, the powerful RTX Studio Laptop features a full-width 4K ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus that works seamlessly with the main 4K UHD OLED display. It’s never been this easy to harness your full creative power.

Design

Reflect your personalised style

The brand new Celestial Blue colour draws its inspiration from the future, and gives ZenBook Pro Duo a sophisticated air of timeless innovation. As befits such a revolutionary concept, it’s also decorated with a unique asymmetric version of the iconic Zen-inspired spun-metal finish: an intriguing design detail that gives ZenBook Pro Duo a totally unmistakable identity. The edges are finished with wide, mirror-finished diamond-cut edges that reflect your surroundings to add a subtle touch of ambient style: in effect, you’re in charge of your laptop’s design.

Celestial Blue

futuristic sense

All aluminum

precision craftsmanship

Reflective edges

personalised style

ScreenPad™ Plus

Experience ultimate productivity

ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus gives you on-the-go computing like you’ve never experienced before. It’s a full-width 4K secondary touchscreen that works seamlessly with the main 15.6-inch 4K UHD OLED touchscreen, giving you endless ways to optimise and personalise your workflow. A series of handy built-in apps help boost your productivity. Quick Key allows one-tap automation of complex keyboard sequences, and Handwriting lets you input text intuitively. There are also useful quick controls such as App Switcher, ViewMax and Task Swap for intuitive interactions between the main display and ScreenPad Plus. Task Group lets you lock into work mode by opening multiple tasks with a single touch. And now you can drag apps or in-app toolbars onto ScreenPad Plus to give you more room to work on the main display, wherever you are.

Drag an app onto the App Switcher icon to launch the app on ScreenPad Plus.Drag an app window onto the add icon, or directly drag the app onto the ScreenPad Plus launcher for easy access.Maximise your viewing experience by dragging an app onto the ViewMax icon to view it on the main display and ScreenPad Plus.Drag apps to ScreenPad Plus and let the Organiser function sort them into three blocks.Switch the position of the open apps on the main display and ScreenPad Plus by tapping the Task Swap icon or pressing the Task Swap hotkey.Customise app groups and use the Task Group icon to open multiple apps with one tap. Tap the App Navigator icon to view all open apps on ScreenPad Plus.With Handwriting you can take notes and record your thoughts or ideas the natural way.

Enjoy an enlarged visual workspace for your code, previews and other programming content.Scroll through your video timeline on ScreenPad Plus, with plenty of extra room for your pro tools.

* Software depicted is Corel® VideoStudio 2019.

Record, mix and master on ScreenPad Plus, with more space for track controls.Check your scripts on ScreenPad Plus while enjoying smooth 3D rendering on the main display.Drag your live-streaming windows onto ScreenPad Plus without interrupting the main game display.

ScreenPad™ Plus

Perfect ergonomics, for stylus or keyboard

With ZenBook Pro Duo and the bundled stylus — or your favorite active stylus — you can really let your creativity flow. Both multitouch displays support stylus input, but ScreenPad Plus gives you a superbly ergonomic and stable platform for writing or drawing. Take notes, sketch out your ideas, or do precision graphical editing in the most intuitive way ever. There’s also a separate palm rest in the box, which enhances the ErgoLift tilting keyboard design to give you the most comfortable typing experience ever.

ScreenPad™ Plus

Endless possibilities

ScreenPad™ Plus gives you effortless app multitasking, so ASUS works closely with third-party developers — including professional video-editing software developer Corel®, with more to come — to optimise ScreenPad Plus for the ultimate productivity. ScreenPad Plus is your gateway to endless possibilities.

* Software depicted is Corel® MultiCam and Spotify®

Performance

Unrivaled portable power

ZenBook Pro Duo is powered by up to a 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 eight-core processor, the latest gaming-grade NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 graphics and blisteringly fast storage. This ultrapowerful combination ensures that ZenBook Pro Duo takes professional-quality tasks in its stride, such as multi-layer photo or video editing, 3D graphics rendering or even game live-streaming.

Windows 10 Pro

Up to

Core™i9

9th Gen Intel® 8-core processor

GeForce

RTX™2060

gaming-grade graphics

Up to

1TB

PCIe® x4 SSD

Up to

32GB

DDR4 2666MHz

CPU

Ultrapowerful computing

ZenBook Pro Duo is incredibly powerful, featuring up to a 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 eight-core processor that’s designed to deliver the ultimate multitasking performance. With its unprecedented 5GHz Turbo Boost frequency, ZenBook Pro Duo can effortlessly handle all the apps on your main screen and ScreenPad™ Plus, for the most fluid cross-screen workflow ever.

43%

faster than MacBook Pro 152

5GHz

Turbo Boost frequency

GPU

Professional-grade graphics

For the very best graphics experience, ZenBook Pro Duo uses the latest NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 discrete graphics powered by the NVIDIA Turing™ architecture. The ultrapowerful GPU with the NVIDIA Studio Driver enables you to enjoy the power of real-time ray-tracing and high-resolution video editing for the ultimate visual realism. Advanced RTX features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing ensures stunning visuals, while exclusive AI assistance reduces repetitive tasks for faster content creation. With ZenBook Pro Duo, your creativity will know no bounds.

6GB

VRAM in GeForce RTX™ 2060

Display

4K UHD OLED, ultraslim bezels

The 4K UHD NanoEdge OLED HDR display4 on ZenBook Pro Duo is truly amazing, with a four-sided frameless design featuring ultraslim bezels. The brilliant OLED touchscreen delivers ultra-vivid colours and deep blacks, with a cinema-grade 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut making it a superb all-rounder for professional work and entertainment. The barely-there bezels increase the screen-to-body ratio to a near-borderless 89%, giving you more screen, and less distraction!

OLED

vivid colours

HDR

ultra detail

100%

DCI-P3

3840X2160

4K UHD main display

3840X1100

4K ScreenPad™ Plus

89%

screen-to-body ratio

Display

Extraordinary colour

To display the most accurate, most vivid, and most realistic colours possible, ZenBook Pro Duo’s display has PANTONE® Validated colour accuracy and supports an exceptionally wide 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut. The DCI-P3 colour space — widely used in the motion picture industry — is increasingly the preferred choice of creative professionals for its increased range of possible colours, and makes images on ZenBook Pro Duo look simply stunning.

100%

DCI-P3

133%

sRGB

validated display

certified display

DCI - P3Adobe RGBsRGB

LCD PanelOLED HDR Panel

NumberPad

Ultimate numeric keypad solution

ZenBook Pro Duo features the latest version of the ASUS NumberPad, an LED-illuminated numeric keypad integrated into the touchpad. Tap on the top-right NumberPad icon for one second to switch the function on and off, and tap on the top-left icon to choose one of two brightness levels. Even when the NumberPad is activated, the touchpad can be used for cursor control thanks to its intelligent software.

IR camera

Hands-free login with face unlock

Enjoy hands-free login on your laptop, using the infrared camera with Windows Hello to login with just a glance — even in the dark!

Connectivity

Ultrafast connectivity

ZenBook Pro Duo is built for creative professionals, so there’s no compromise on connectivity. A full set of high-performance I/O ports — including the latest Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C™ port — give you dongle-free connectivity whatever you’re doing, wherever you are. The latest Intel Wi-Fi 6 with Gig+ (802.11ax) takes wireless speeds to the next level, for supersmooth connections to the world.

HDMI

port

Wi-Fi6

802.11ax

Up to

40Gbps

Thunderbolt™ 3 data transfers1

Thunderbolt™ 3 USB-C™Audio jackUSB 3.1 Gen 2DC-inHDMIUSB 3.1 Gen 2

Far field Cortana and Alexa

Alexa built-in with light bar

Alexa5 makes it easy to voice control your day. At home or on the go you can ask Alexa to play music, read the news, answer questions and more. Your ZenBook Pro Duo has a dedicated light bar that illuminate when you speak to Alexa. Just ask, and Alexa will respond instantly.

Alexa, turn on the lights.

Audio

Audio tuned by Harman Kardon

The ASUS Golden Ear team worked with renowned home and automotive audio experts Harman Kardon to ensure the best audio experience. A tailored mix of superior hardware — including smart amplifier technology that delivers louder sound with no distortion — and finely tuned software gives you sound like no other laptop.

certified

ASUS Laptop quality test

Military-grade toughness and build quality

ZenBook Pro Duo meets the ultra-demanding MIL-STD 810G military standard for reliability and durability, undergoing a punishing test regime that includes extended tests for operation in harsh environments including extreme altitudes, temperatures and humidity. It has also passed ASUS internal laptop tests that far exceed the standards set by the industry.

With extended long-term use, OLED displays can show slight visual changes. This is also expected behavior and can include effects such as image persistence or burn-in, where the display shows a faint remnant of an image even after a new image appears on the screen. This can occur in more extreme cases such as when the same high contrast image is continuously displayed for prolonged periods of time. ASUS has engineered the OLED display to reduce the effects of OLED burn-in. High dynamic range (HDR) means that your display is able to playback HDR content. With ZenBook Pro Duo UX581, you can enjoy the following functions:

1. Watch HDR streaming videos

If the video supports HDR, UX581 will automatically prioritise the HDR version for playback for the best viewing experience. As the HDR streaming processing is not fully optimised in Google Chrome, we recommend using Microsoft Edge as your internet browser for the best visual experience.

2. Play HDR-capable games, media, and other apps

If you own HDR content and would like to view it in HDR on UX581, please first connect UX581 to the DC power supply. Open Display Settings, select Windows HD Colour settings, then switch on Play HDR games and apps. When this function is turned on, the display's brightness may be reduced and you will need to readjust the brightness to the desired level. Also, the colour of the Windows Desktop may change, but this won’t affect HDR functions. We recommend you only switch on Play HDR games and apps when you use related apps. For non-streaming HDR videos with HEVC decoder requirements, we also recommend using Microsoft’s built-in Movies & TV app.

Amazon Alexa availability varies according to country. Please check with your local ASUS retailer for details.

Game-changing performance

Intel® Optane™ memory H10 with Solid State Storage takes advantage of Intel® 3D NAND technology to give you 1.35X faster read speeds compared to NAND SSDs, even with multiple apps running in the background. The drive remembers the most frequently accessed files and apps, and caches them for more responsive performance so you won’t have to wait for your laptop to catch up, no matter the workload.

Eight cores for pro

The latest Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK processor harnesses the awesome power of eight separate cores, and has a Turbo Boost frequency of up to 5GHz that outclasses most of the competition. That’s why ZenBook Pro Duo is one of the most powerful laptops for discerning on-the-go professionals.

10%

faster compared to i9-8750H3

Turbo fan boost

ZenBook Pro Duo incorporates the innovative ErgoLift hinge, which not only improves typing ergonomics but also improves airflow for better thermal performance. And to further ensure silky-smooth operation and maximum performance are available at all times, there’s a dedicated Turbo Fan button to boost cooling at any time. Just press the Turbo Fan button before you launch your most demanding tasks, then lose yourself in your creative workflows without having to worry. The special cooling fins will efficiently disperse all the heat generated, so you can simply concentrate on the task at hand.

Turbo Fan

dedicated button

Cooling fin

for improved airflow

Lightning-fast Thunderbolt™ 3

The USB-C™ port on ZenBook Pro Duo features the latest Thunderbolt™ 3 technology, which is twice as fast as Thunderbolt™ 2 and 8x faster than USB 3.1 Gen 1. Plug in a 4K UHD external display to enhance your productivity, or even connect to an external graphics dock — such as the ASUS XG Station Pro — to upgrade to future GPUs for the latest games and virtual reality (VR) applications.

Up to

40Gbps

Thunderbolt™ 3 data transfers1

VR

gaming-ready

eGPU

supports external GPUs

Supports

4KUHD

external display

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Unless otherwise stated, all performance claims are based on theoretical performance. Actual figures may vary in real-world situations.

The actual transfer speed of USB 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and/or Type-C will vary depending on many factors including the processing speed of the host device, file attributes and other factors related to system configuration and your operating environment.

Product specifications may differ from country to country. We recommend that you check with your local dealers for the specifications of the products available in your country. Colors of products may not be perfectly accurate due to variations caused by photography and monitor settings. Although we endeavor to present the most accurate and comprehensive information at the time of publication, we reserve the right to make changes without prior notice.